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Re: [RFD] Strange patch formats (aka tricks with unified diffs)..

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MCMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 13, 2007, 05:38 UTC
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On 4/12/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> So I can see two ways to fix this:
>  - bug Paul about alternate diff viewing capabilities in gitk. He's cc'd
>    here. A way to make the "diff" pane show just the new one, the old one,
>    or even both side-by-side with some mousy interface?
>  - add some actual switch to git diff generation to hide the negative side
>    of a unified diff, and add some way to just make gitk pass that switch
>    in.
>
> I dunno. I realize that it's not just gitk - gitweb, qgit etc don't allow
> the tricks *either*, but gitk was the one I just hit this with.

Currently in qgit you can select a revision + a file and call an external diff viewer, as example Kompare (tweakable from 'Edir->settings->External diff viewer' menu) to view the diff side-by-side, or in any other way the viewer allows, for the selected file.

I like also the idea to hide the negative side but I would rather prefer a togglable command/button instead of a command line argument or a setting, so to allow easy and quick hide/unhide on the same patch.

I will work on it..... ;-)

Thanks for idea Marco

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Message 3 of 16 in “[RFD] Strange patch formats (aka tricks with unified diffs)..”
  1. Linus TorvaldsApr 12, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2007
  3. Marco CostalbaApr 13, 2007
  4. Marco CostalbaApr 17, 2007
  5. Paul MackerrasApr 13, 2007
  6. Martin LanghoffApr 13, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 13, 2007
  8. Martin LanghoffApr 13, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinApr 14, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 14, 2007
  11. Jeff KingApr 14, 2007
  12. Linus TorvaldsApr 13, 2007
  13. Paul MackerrasApr 18, 2007
  14. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2007
  15. Matthias LederhoferApr 13, 2007
  16. Linus TorvaldsApr 13, 2007

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